Re: Beginner String formatting question

2008-01-26 Thread JAMoore84
I apologize for the lack of details in my last post. This time formatting program is a piece of a larger program I am trying to write to de-clutter GPS transmission. I have a GPS receiver that transmits its readings via bluetooth. I've been able to use pySerial and store X number of bytes, then

Beginner String formatting question

2008-01-26 Thread JAMoore84
Hi all, I am trying to write a simple program that will accept an integral "time" input in the HHMMSS format and output a "HH:MM:SS" form. My code is as follows: import string def FormatTime(time): '''Converts an HHMMSS string to HH:MM:SS format.''' timeString = str

Re: Beginner Pyserial Question

2008-01-24 Thread JAMoore84
I've solved the problem- Thanks for steering me in the right direction. The problem is that your traditional "COM1" does not exist on this computer (Thanks Grant). A trip to the Device manager listed all the COM ports on the computer. After successfully connecting to COM7 (port = serial.Serial(6)

Re: Beginner Pyserial Question

2008-01-24 Thread JAMoore84
> My guess is that for whatever reason the 'first' serial port > (which is what you're asking for by specifying a 0 when > instantiating the Serial class) doesn't actually exist. Serial > device names under Windows are broken. I realize this. I tried connecting to different port "numbers", but I

Beginner Pyserial Question

2008-01-24 Thread JAMoore84
Hi Guys, I have a project where I'd like to save GPS data that is streamed to a Sony Vaio over bluetooth. I can monitor the data stream over Hyper Terminal, but I'd like to use python to capture it as well. I've installed Python 2.5, pyserial 2.2 and the appropriate pywin program (pywin32-210.wi